Blog Spotlight: MANEATER on Lifetime Review

By Jun 02, 2009

The two-part Lifetime original movie, MANEATER, starring Sarah Chalke, premieres on Saturday May 30, with part 2 airing on May 31.

When I first heard about the movie, I was really excited. Not only was it a Lifetime movie (and I usually enjoy those), but Scrubs' Sarah Chalke was starring in it. And so it was with great excitement that I sat down to watch Maneater.

Unfortunately, the movie did not live up to my expectations. I think my biggest issue is that I couldn't find myself caring about any of the characters. Sarah Chalke's character, Clarissa Alpert, is not very likable. She decides that she wants to get married and pursues a new handsome producer, who just moved into town, Aaron Mason (Philip Winchester). Now here is my problem, their whole relationship didn't feel true to me. It was a fixed meeting and the relationship is not really developed in the movie to the point that we believe these two really love each other. Now I don't want to give too many things away, but it just didn't really work for me, and I usually eat those things up. I honestly got to the end of part 1 and hesitated on even watching part 2 and that can't be a good sign. The good news is, I actually enjoyed part 2 better than part 1. Read more

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